Colonel Pat Lang's Outpost - "A Committee of Correspondence"

20 November 2017

NoKo back on the AUMF list?

"President Trump on Monday announced that his administration has re-designated North Korea as a state sponsor of terror, a move aimed at increasing pressure on Pyongyang a decade after the George W. Bush administration removed the rogue nation from the list.

Trump made his decision public during a brief photo op at a Cabinet meeting, calling it "a very critical step" that "should've happened a long time ago." The president cited assassinations by dictator Kim Jong Un's regime carried out on foreign soil, as well as the treatment of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died in June days after he was released in a coma by the North after spending 17 months in captivity." Washpost

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One of the things that this designation does is eliminate any legal problem Trump might have with people like the CG of Strategic Command since the universal scope of the present AUMF against terrorism will automatically extend to North Korea as a state supportive of terrorism. Thus far the AUMF has been applied to Afghanistan, the Philippines, Georgia, Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iraq, and Somalia. pl

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NoKo back on the AUMF list?

"President Trump on Monday announced that his administration has re-designated North Korea as a state sponsor of terror, a move aimed at increasing pressure on Pyongyang a decade after the George W. Bush administration removed the rogue nation from the list.

Trump made his decision public during a brief photo op at a Cabinet meeting, calling it "a very critical step" that "should've happened a long time ago." The president cited assassinations by dictator Kim Jong Un's regime carried out on foreign soil, as well as the treatment of American college student Otto Warmbier, who died in June days after he was released in a coma by the North after spending 17 months in captivity." Washpost

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One of the things that this designation does is eliminate any legal problem Trump might have with people like the CG of Strategic Command since the universal scope of the present AUMF against terrorism will automatically extend to North Korea as a state supportive of terrorism. Thus far the AUMF has been applied to Afghanistan, the Philippines, Georgia, Yemen, Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Iraq, and Somalia. pl